Rate-Accuracy Trade-Off as a Function of Test-Taking Response Styles, Perception of Time, and Test Anxiety: A Training Study

A training program was developed to help high test anxious high school students utilize optimal performance strategies when working on standardized tests. Thirty-three high and low anxious students completed a 3-week training program on "test-taking skills." Subjects were assigned to one of three training conditions: Rate-Accuracy Strategy Training (training helping students establish an optimal test-taking rate between fast, inaccurate and slow, overly cautious extremes), Cognitive Restructuring Training (training emphasizing strategies for reducing interfering thoughts during testing), or a Placebo-Control "Test Experience" Condition.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Plass, James Alan

• Psychology, Developmental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8310000

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69623